Famous quotes containing the words violent and/or crimes:
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)